Heroes of Newerth News and Updates

Hello fellow gamers! Gamereplays have opened our own Discord server, with a channel for each of our active games and more. Discord is a text and voice chat service designed specifically for gamers and gaming. It comes with Steam and Twitch integration and plenty of fun features to keep...

Seasons Greetings! All the members of the GameReplays.org staff team would like to wish you a safe and very happy, healthy Christmas and New Year!We hope this year has been a good one for you, and we hope you have many alcohol-fuelled celebrations during this festive season and of course, to...

Good Day! Here at Gamereplays.org we're looking for new Artists to join our game teams! When your a staff member at any level, you'll get some nice extra perks. These include a larger inbox and access to the staff areas of Gamereplays.org. However Artists get some extra perks, which are basic...

A long time ago, in a time before the dinosaurs themselves, GameReplays members used to gain medals in recognition of their work. Okay, it wasn't that long ago, but it certainly feels like it! There were medals for many things: winning tournaments, uploading amazing replays, winning screenshot...

Today I have the pleasure of unveiling the first of our new staff positions to you, introducing modders! For too long now we've been disregarding those great members out there whose knowledge is in more of a game building, modifying or map making rather than strategic knowledge. This position is...

Today, GameReplays.org is announcing a new feature for the replay system of every game. Guests may now upload their replays to any game's replay system. These replays are not visible to regular members via the replay index but can be shared directly via the URL of the particular replay. This...

Ever had an interest in the exciting field of gaming journalism? Or, more likely, want to be able to include a stint as a "video game industry journalist" on your resume? Then you're in luck, because we just fired most of our writers and are in search of new ones! Hooray!But what does a...

Cryo Nine Gaming is looking to opening an in house league for Heroes of Newerth! While the site for HoN is currently under development, they are the #1 inhouse league in Dota 2. .The first league #c9-hon will be for high level players but if there is demand from lower level players they will look...

After many months of preparation and planning, the biggest Heroes of Newerth event is finally here. HoN Tour is live and the registrations for Season One are open. HoN Tour is a multi-event tournament series which will run from October 2012 till April 2013 with a total cash prize of $330,000.The...

Today S2 Games has made the biggest announcement, after Heroes of Newerth chosen its Free to Play path. Starting this Friday, July 20th, all heroes in HoN will be available in the hero pool for FREE. Here is what the Director of HoN, [S2]DivA had to say about it:As part of our continuous efforts...

Our Senior Commentator The_Karcher prepared a nice video review of a relatively big patch for Heroes of Newerth which includes 2 item reworks as well as some balance changes. You can watch the whole review here:The complete patch notes are as follows:Version 2.6.8--------------- Free Hero Pool...

In response to our recent security breach, we've significantly increased the security protecting your passwords. As a side-effect of this, all password changes within the past two weeks have been discarded. If you have reset your password within the past two weeks, it has been "un-reset" to...

DreamHoN which was played on DreamHack Summer 2012 is by far the biggest Heroes of Newerth event this years in which all the best HoN teams in the world were competing for a total prize of $60,000. There were a total of 8 teams in the tournament out of which there were some well known (and...

Riftwalker is the newest girly hero addition to the Heroes of Newerth hero pool. Riftwalker is an intelligence hero with four active spells that synergize very well with each other. Her first ability, Cascade Event, is similar to Magmus' ulti from DotA, but it is a targeted spell which draws all...

S2 Games managed to surprise us all when they announced a new map which is specifically designed for popular Mid Wars games. We all played at least one of those games, where the rules were simple: all mid, no re-spawn and no other objective except to kill the heroes on the other side of the...

This update brings besides the usual bug fixes and optimizations, some balance changes as well. The most notable changes are the decrease of to health regeneration of all melee heroes from 1.25 to 1 and the Invisibility rune now acts like Assassin's Shroud. Heroes Artillery, Electrician, Lord...

DreamHoN is a massive multi-regional tournament series officially sponsored by Alienware Arena and the grand finals of the event will be played at the world's largest LAN event, DreamHack Summer 2012. Teams from North America, Europe, South East Asia (SEA), Oceania, the Commonwealth of...

After a relatively long delay with no big Heroes of Newerth E-Sports events and tournaments we finally have something interesting. Plantronics GameCom has announced a big juicy free-to-enter tournament with a $4,000 prize pool. Registrations are officially open starting Monday, April 16th, and...

This guide will be about Midas, one of the most flexible heroes in the game right now. This hero is amazingly strong when played right, but merely a shadow of what he could be in the hands of a player who doesn't understand him. The key aspects to successfully play this hero will be your timing,...

HoN Tour, the biggest Heroes of Newerth competitive event to this date with $250,000 in cash and prizes, the event everyone has been waiting and everyone has been talking about, was announced back in November 2011, but since the announcement, S2 has been relatively quiet about it, until today....

"Transformers heroes in... Newerth?!" Everyone please welcome Artillery, the newest addition to Heroes of Newerth. This ranged agility hero is equipped with weapons with high range, that can slow you down and even out-range defense towers. His ultimate can stun enemies in an area and it pushes...

Hello everyone and welcome to the March Hero Tier List!This List keeps track of the heroes used by the competitive teams and is based on data collected from the official matches between these competitives teams - which means scrims aren't used to build this list. Since the list is built manually,...

After a long running domination in the Heroes of Newerth competitive scene, FnaticRC.HoN are making the move to Dota 2. As one of the best teams in the world, this change in games will shake up the competition for both HoN and Dota 2. After winning title after title at Dreamhack 2011,...

Hello everyone and welcome to this new Pro Patch Review! Today we'll discuss about the changes introduced in the patch 2.5.16. The balance patch being quite short, we decided to ask a few players about the changes and let you read the different opinions about those changes! Big shoutout to...

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